In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report No. 2015-03 – Corrected Opinion

CourtSupreme Court of Florida
DecidedMay 19, 2016
DocketSC15-1170
StatusPublished

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Opinion

Supreme Court of Florida ____________

No. SC15-1170 ____________

IN RE: STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES— REPORT NO. 2015-03.

[April 7, 2016] CORRECTED OPINION

PER CURIAM.

The Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal

Cases has submitted proposed changes to the standard jury instructions and asks

that the Court authorize the amended standard instructions. We have jurisdiction.

See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.

The Committee proposes amending the following existing standard criminal

jury instructions: 25.2 (Sale, Purchase, Manufacture, Delivery, or Possession with

Intent to Sell, Purchase, Manufacture, or Deliver a Controlled Substance); 25.3

(Sale, Purchase, Delivery, or Possession in Excess of Ten Grams of a Controlled

Substance); 25.4 (Delivery of a Controlled Substance to or Use of Minor); 25.5

(Bringing a Controlled Substance into the State); 25.6 (Sell, Manufacture, Deliver, or Possession with Intent to Sell, Manufacture or Deliver a Controlled Substance in

Specified Locations); 25.7 (Possession of a Controlled Substance); 25.8 (Obtaining

a Controlled Substance by Fraud, Etc.); 25.9 (Trafficking in Cannabis); 25.10

(Trafficking in Cocaine); 25.11 (Trafficking in [Morphine] [Opium]

[Hydromorphone] [Heroin] [(Specified Substance Alleged)]); 25.12 (Trafficking in

Phencyclidine); 25.13 (Trafficking in Methaqualone); 25.14 (Use or Possession

with Intent to Use Drug Paraphernalia); 25.15 (Delivery, Possession with Intent to

Deliver, or Manufacture with Intent to Deliver Drug Paraphernalia); 25.16

(Delivery of Drug Paraphernalia to a Minor); 25.17 (Contraband in County

Detention Facility); 25.18 (Contraband in Juvenile [Detention Facility]

[Commitment Program]); 25.20 (Possession of Contraband [In] [Upon the Grounds

of] a State Correctional Institution); and 25.21 ([Introduction] [Removal] of

Contraband [Into] [From] a State Correctional Institution). The Committee also

proposes the following new jury instructions: 25.11(a) (Trafficking in

Hydrocodone); 25.11(b) (Trafficking in Oxycodone); 25.13(a) (Trafficking in

[Amphetamine] [Methamphetamine]); 25.13(b) (Trafficking in Flunitrazepam);

25.13(c) (Trafficking in [GHB] [GBL] [1,4-Butanediol]); 25.13(d) (Trafficking in

Phenethylamines (Includes MDMA)); and 25.13(e) (Trafficking in LSD). The

Committee published its proposals in The Florida Bar News. One comment was

-2- received by the Committee. The Court did not publish the proposals after they

were filed.

Having considered the Committee’s report and the comment submitted to

the Committee, we amend the standard jury instructions as proposed by the

Committee, with one exception, and authorize them for publication and use. While

the Committee expressed the belief that the existing explanation of constructive

possession in the majority of instructions they sought to amend was deficient, the

Court is unaware of any case law that has held the current explanation of

constructive possession deficient or that has redefined constructive possession

from that in the existing drug trafficking jury instructions. For that reason, we

decline to alter the explanation of constructive possession in the jury instructions

herein under consideration.

The new and amended criminal jury instructions, as set forth in the appendix

to this opinion, are hereby authorized for publication and use.1 New language is

indicated by underlining, and deleted language is indicated by struck-through type.

In authorizing the publication and use of these instructions, we express no opinion

1. The amendments as reflected in the appendix are to the Criminal Jury Instructions as they appear on the Court’s website at www.floridasupremecourt.org /jury_instructions/instructions.shtml. We recognize that there may be minor discrepancies between the instructions as they appear on the website and the published versions of the instructions. Any discrepancies as to instructions authorized for publication and use after October 25, 2007, should be resolved by reference to the published opinion of this Court authorizing the instruction. -3- on their correctness and remind all interested parties that this authorization

forecloses neither requesting additional or alternative instructions nor contesting

the legal correctness of the instructions. We further caution all interested parties

that any comments associated with the instructions reflect only the opinion of the

Committee and are not necessarily indicative of the views of this Court as to their

correctness or applicability. The instructions as set forth in the appendix shall be

effective when this opinion becomes final.

It is so ordered.

LABARGA, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, POLSTON, and PERRY, JJ., concur.

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND IF FILED, DETERMINED.

Original Proceeding – Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases

Judge Frederic Rand Wallis, Chair, Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases, Daytona Beach, Florida; Judge Jerri Lynn Collins, Past Chair, Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases, Sanford, Florida; and Barton Neil Schneider, Staff Liaison, Office of the State Courts Administrator, Tallahassee, Florida,

for Petitioner

-4- 25.2 SALE, PURCHASE, MANUFACTURE, DELIVERY, OR POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO SELL, PURCHASE, MANUFACTURE, OR DELIVER A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE § 893.13(1)(a) and (2)(a), Fla. Stat. Certain drugs and chemical substances are by law known as “controlled substances.” (Specific substance alleged) is a controlled substance. To prove the crime of (crime charged), the State must prove the following(applicable number) three elements beyond a reasonable doubt: 1. (Defendant) [sold] [manufactured] [delivered] [purchased] [possessed with intent to [sell] [manufacture] [deliver] [purchase]] a certain substance. 2. The substance was (specific substance alleged). Give if possession is charged. 3. (Defendant) had knowledge of the presence of the substance. Delivery of 20 Grams or Less of Cannabis without consideration is a misdemeanor. See § 893.13(3), Fla. Stat. If the State charges the felony of Delivery of More Than 20 Grams of Cannabis, the jury must make a finding as to the weight. Give if applicable. 3. or 4. If you find that (defendant) is guilty of Delivery of Cannabis, you must then determine if the State proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the The cannabis weighed more than 20 grams. Definitions. Give as applicable. Cannabis. §§§ 893.02(3); 893.13(3); 893.13(6)(b), Fla. Stats. See Comment section for medical marijuana. Cannabis means all parts of any plant of the genus Cannabis, whether growing or not and the seeds thereof. Sell. “Sell” means to transfer or deliver something to another person in exchange for money or something of value or a promise of money or something of value. Manufacture. § 893.02(135)(a), Fla. Stat. “Manufacture” means the production, preparation, packaging, labeling or relabeling, propagation, compounding, cultivating, growing, conversion or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly. -5- Manufacturing can be by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis. It can also be by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis.

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